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DISA bracteata. 

 Small -Jlowered Disa. 



G^'NANDRIA MONAXJ-iRiA. 



.■ Nat. ord. OncHiDE/E. Jussieii geti, 6^. Brown prod. 309. Div. T. 



' Anthem adnata subterminalis persistens. PolUnis massie ii lobulis angulatis 



elastic^ coIiEerentibiis; basi affixie. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. 

 niSA. Supr^ vol. S.foL 210. 



Div. Calcare longiore. 

 D. bracteata, galea obtusd, calcare oblongo, labello Haeari apice latiore, 

 spica cylindricu, bracteis erectis floribus longioribus. Sxuartz act. holm. 

 ISOO. 211. 

 Disa bracteata. JVilld. sp. pi. 4. 4-8. Swartz in Schroder's neues journ.fur 

 die hot. 1. 28. Exenip. spont. in Herb. Banks, repostum. 

 Planta spithamtsa. Tuber subroiundum. Folia caulina plura {5-6) Itin- 

 ceohla erecia concaviuscula. Spica mullijlora bipotlicaris. Bracteie altitu- 

 dine circiter Jlorum^ Joliacea:, lanceolata acumine hrevi. Germ, cylindraceum 

 iorlum in flore expanso, subsesxile. Flares porvi, luteo-virides galea pallide 

 Jusca, erecti. Galea erecia ovalis ohtusa modice concava, calcari ipsa ealeA 

 ter breviore desccndcnti obttiso Jusco. Petala 2 infen'ora exteriora arete re- 

 Jlexa lanccolalo-subovata acutiuscida plana; interiorum 2 superiora crassiiis- 

 ctda, conniventia lanceolato-linearia viridia basin versus semim laliora ibigue 

 columns latera amplexantia apice lineari integro citiiis ttiarcescente. Labellum 

 Unfftilato-lineare obtusum integerrimum planum dependens primtttn viride 

 deind^ superiore parte citius marcescente. Brown MSS. 



Of the four or five species, of this curious South African 

 genus, introduced into the gardens of Europe, two are due 

 to Mr. Griffin; viz. the present and the praninata of the 

 210th article of this publication. 



■\^'e have to thank Mr. Brown for his vciy liberal com- 

 munication of a description of the plant made by himself at 

 South Lambeth, where it was in flower in June last in the 

 conservatorv, the root having been veiy recently received by 

 Mr. Griffin from the Cape of Good Hope. 



Our only guide to the species intended by Swartz by his 

 Disa bracteata is the above short specific phrase, unaccom- 

 panied by any note: with this our plant, however, in Mr. 

 Brown's opinion, agrees too closely to justify a separation ; 

 and being moreover clearly of the same species with the spe- 

 cimen in the Banksian Herbarium, deemed to be (he brac- 

 teata of Swartz, we have no hesitation in giving it under the 

 present title. 



